Gift tins for the troops: in pictures

Queen Victoria was the first monarch to send a gift tin to soldiers abroad,
when she decided in 1899 to send chocolate to her troops in South Africa.
The three leading chocolate manufacturers of the time, JS Fry and Sons,
Cadbury and Rowntree refused to be paid for the order, and by 1900 123,000
tins had been sent out. They contained one pound of vanilla chocolate, and
had rounded corners so they could be stored more easily in soldiers'
knapsacks.